Since earning his admission to the Louisiana State Bar in 2014, James H. Johnson has represented a varied client base in complex litigation matters. He has litigated diverse issues in state and federal courts, including automobile and trucking liability, products liability, construction defects, and wrongful death and personal injury matters. His practice has also focused on insurance coverage and bad faith issues.

James Johnson grew up in Atlanta and moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University, where he graduated with a BA in English. James graduated from Loyola University College of Law in 2014, where he attended the evening law program while also working as a law clerk at a local law firm focused on insurance defense and construction. Prior to law school, James worked in advertising and communications as a writer, researcher, and copy editor, serving a wide variety of clients, including corporations, public entities, and legislators.

James currently represents corporate and insurance clients in litigation matters involving insurance coverage and bad faith claims, trucking and auto matters, and personal injury claims.

James is licensed and admitted to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, and the New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel.  James has also been selected to the Louisiana Super Lawyers Rising Stars List 2019-2023.

James lives in New Orleans with his wife, Ashley, and their two children. He enjoys supporting the Saints, watching baseball, playing soccer, and reading literature.

Rodney J. Lacoste, Jr. is a native New Orleanian and founding member of Perrier & Lacoste, L.L.C. practicing primarily in transportation law, insurance coverage, appellate practice and procedure, and the defense of personal injury claims in transportation, products liability, and workers’ compensation litigation. Rodney’s experience has focused on representing interstate and local trucking companies, common carriers and their insurers in matters involving catastrophic losses, insurance coverage, and contractual issues. He is a member of numerous trucking and transportation organizations including the Transportation Lawyers Association and the Louisiana Motor Transport Association. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute.

Since graduating from the Loyola University School of Law in 1989, Rodney has practiced transportation litigation, insurance coverage and defense, products liability, premises liability, and commercial litigation before all levels of state and federal courts. As a trial lawyer, Rodney has served as lead counsel in complex cases involving multi-million dollar catastrophic losses. In addition to his law degree, he also earned an MBA from Loyola University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive status).

Rodney is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the Louisiana Bar Foundation, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel (Board of Directors, 2003 – present; President, 2010). Rodney has also been recognized as a Louisiana Super Lawyer. Each year, no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Rodney resides in New Orleans with his wife and their three children.

Since he began his legal career over twenty years ago, Jean Lavidalie, Jr. has gained extensive experience representing a diverse range of insurance companies, corporations, individuals, trucking companies, and municipalities in civil litigation, governmental and transactional legal matters. The main focus of Jean’s practice has always lied in earning results for clients in a wide variety of simple and complex litigation matters, specifically those arising out of transportation accidents and other personal injury issues, as well as those dealing with homeowner coverage and bad faith questions. Jean has also gained vast experience performing corporate and transactional functions for an array of clients including individuals, large cities and municipalities, and multi-million dollar corporations. He has also argued before Courts of Appeal and the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Jean is a member of both the Louisiana and Georgia State Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in many state and federal courts in these jurisdictions. Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Jean formerly achieved honors as a student at Guatemala’s premier law school, Universidad Francisco Marroquin. In 1994, he immigrated with his parents to the United States and completed his education at the University of New Orleans and Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans. In 2001, he was proudly sworn in to be a United States citizen.

A devoted family man, Jean delights in living life to the fullest with his beautiful wife and their children. Aside from his family, Jean’s passions lie in being an active church member, amateur historian, and loyal LSU & New Orleans Saints fan.

Bryan Lege was raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, and graduated from Louisiana State University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science and Microbiology. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1999.

Bryan is licensed to practice in Louisiana and Texas. His practice involves insurance defense, automobile and transportation litigation, admiralty and maritime, merchant liability, commercial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, premise liability, product liability and worker’s compensation defense. Bryan has extensive experience in analyzing, drafting and revising master service agreements, drilling contracts, construction contracts, and equipment leases. He has practiced before the state and federal courts and appellate courts and both Louisiana and Texas.

Bryan lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with his wife, Cally, and he has the proud father of three.

Sean M. McAllister has extensive experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury lawsuits, including cases involving auto/trucking accidents, maritime law, workers’ compensation disputes, employment law, civil rights violations, premises liability matters, and products liability matters. As a practicing attorney, he has also litigated cases concerning family law, criminal law, and consumer/debtor law.

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Sean received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Louisiana State University in 2010 followed by his Juris Doctorate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 2014. He was named to the law school’s Chancellor’s List, participated in various moot court competitions, and contributed time to the Public Law Society. Within three months of becoming licensed to practice law in October 2014, he won his first trial as first chair. He is licensed to practice before all state courts throughout Louisiana and before the federal courts in the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana.

Sean has been recognized as a Louisiana Super Lawyer Rising Star 2022-2025, and was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2021 Edition of “The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.” He has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating and is a member of the Young Lawyers Division of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel, and the New Orleans Bar Association.

He presently resides in Metairie with his family.

Kristie Mouney was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up in the New Orleans area. After high school, Kristie graduated from Louisiana State University in 1999. After college, Kristie began a career as an Algebra teacher. After 3 years of teaching, Kristie attended law school and earned a Juris Doctorate from Tulane University Law School in 2005.

Kristie has been practicing law for over 20 years, in which her practice involves insurance coverage litigation, insurance defense, transportation defense, commercial litigation, premises liability, general liability, bad faith litigation and construction litigation. She has practiced before the state and federal courts of Louisiana as well as numerous other federal courts throughout the nation.

Kristie is a member of several legal associations including the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, DRI- The Voice of the Defense Bar, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel and Themis Advocates Group. She has also received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating with a 4.8/5.0 peer rating.

Kristie enjoys spending time with her family, including her husband, Clayton, and her two children, Carter and Grace.

Guy D. Perrier is a native New Orleanian and founding member of Perrier & Lacoste, LLC.  Specializing in the defense of national and local companies facing casualty and property claims, as well as general liability, he has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating with a 5.0/5.0 peer rating and has been recognized as one of New Orleans Magazine Top Lawyers.  Guy has also been selected to the Louisiana Super Lawyers List 2009-2025.

Since graduating from Tulane University Law School in 1990, Guy has practiced general liability defense, transportation litigation, construction litigation, insurance defense, products liability and premises liability before all levels of state and federal courts. As a trial lawyer, Guy has successfully litigated complex cases involving multi-million dollar catastrophic losses.

Guy is a member of various bar associations including the New Orleans Bar Association, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. He is also a member of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, and is a founding member of Themis Advocates Group, a national networking organization of elite insurance defense litigators.

Guy is also involved in many civic and charitable organizations including the American Cancer Society, Grace at the Green Light, Lighthouse Louisiana, St. Jude, De La Salle High School, Hogs for the Cause, Kelly Gibson Foundation, and St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Eric Price is a member of Perrier & Lacoste’s Mississippi office. His office is located in the Jackson, Mississippi metro area.

Eric’s practice involves commercial trucking defense, non-emergency medical transportation, premises liability, appellate advocacy and uninsured motorist disputes.

Eric is admitted to practice before all state courts in Louisiana and Mississippi, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 2006 and has been litigating cases since then. He was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 2021.

In 2002, Eric received his Bachelor of Business Administration, cum laude, from Mississippi State University, majoring in Business Information Systems. In 2006, Eric received his Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Mississippi. While there, he was selected to become a member of Phi Kappa Phi and served on the Mississippi Journal of Space Law. Eric was a semi-finalist in the Steen Reynolds & Dalehite Trial Competition and the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts.

Eric is a member of the Louisiana Bar, Mississippi Bar, New Orleans Bar, Capital Area Bar, and American Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel, and Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association. He previously served on the Publications Committee and Homeless Youth Committee for the Mississippi Bar’s Young Lawyers Division.

Eric was selected as a Mid-South “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers magazine in 2011-2020 and was selected as a Super Lawyer 2023-2025. Since 2013, he has maintained Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating, AV. In 2019, Eric was given an AV Preeminent Judicial Edition rating, indicating the highest possible rating for legal ability and professional standards by both the Bar and Judiciary. He is a 2019 graduate of the Mississippi Bar’s Leadership Forum.

Eric resides with his family in Madison, Mississippi, where is an active member of his church. He enjoy spending time his wife and their three children.

Mike Robertson focuses his practice on civil defense litigation, including commercial transportation, construction law, premises liability, products liability, and the defense of common carriers. He has extensive jury trial experience in both Louisiana and Mississippi, including a defense verdict for a chassis manufacturer, the successful defense of a premises liability claim against a restaurant in the French Quarter, and the successful defense of an alleged drunk driver involved in an accident while driving a company vehicle.

Mike received his law degree from Mississippi College School of Law in 2008, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board, a semi-finalist in the annual Mississippi Moot Court Competition, and served as a Pupil in the Charles Clark American Inn of Court. Before law school, Mike attended Mississippi College where he served as President of the Student Government Association and was honored as the Mississippi HEADWAE Student of the Year.

Mike is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, Mississippi State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Defense Research Institute, and is a Notary Public. He is also a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance where he earned his Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP) Designation, and he has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV Preeminent rating.

Mike resides in New Orleans with his wife, Sarah, and their children. He enjoys traveling, dining throughout the city, and serving on the Leadership Team at Riverside Church and on the Board of the non-profit organization, NOTEP.

Trent P. Roddy practices tort and insurance litigation in state and federal courts. His primary practice areas include trucking and transportation industry defense, cargo claims, automobile liability, insurance coverage, premises liability, products liability, redhibition, professional liability, construction law and appellate advocacy.

Trent is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute (Trucking Law Committee), the New Orleans Bar Association, and the New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel.

Trent graduated from Louisiana State University in 2001, when he was awarded admission to Phi Beta Kappa. Trent earned his Juris Doctor in 2004 from Tulane University School of Law, where he was Associate Executive Editor of the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Dean’s Academic Affairs Committee. He also participated in the Tulane Legislative & Administrative Law Clinic and The Public Law Center.

Trent and his wife Jennifer have three sons.